Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tachina fera?
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| tim worfolk |
Posted on 09-05-2009 06:17
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 Member Location: Devon, England Posts: 737 Joined: 05.05.09 |
Could this be Tachina fera? Photographed a few days ago, Devon, England. |
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| tim worfolk |
Posted on 09-05-2009 06:20
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Member Location: Devon, England Posts: 737 Joined: 05.05.09 |
photo seems to have gone missing, try again...
tim worfolk attached the following image:  [123.96Kb] |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 09-05-2009 07:55
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19299 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Not only it could be, it is ! Theo |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 09-05-2009 07:56
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, they are a common mid-summer species but they also have a slightly less commonly-seen Spring brood too. I saw one last weekend in South Oxfordshire on chalk downland  Another example of a small first brood is the very distinctive Phasia hemiptera, which we associate with high Summer nectaring on umbellifers etc but you can also see them in early Spring nectaring on Lesser Cellandine too
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| tim worfolk |
Posted on 09-05-2009 20:56
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Member Location: Devon, England Posts: 737 Joined: 05.05.09 |
Thanks for the confirmation; this is second I've seen in the last week. |
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